Hypocrisy is dead. Good riddance, right? Except … the loss is exposing a hazardous void, like a sewer manhole without a cover. So, how did this happen: the passing of hypocrisy, which served with such distinction as the universally scorned…
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Time will tell how our actions now will impact our descendants’ future. In such hindsight, there’s a good chance that when now becomes then, the story of this period of American history will, literally, not be too flattering. The Roman…
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Deniers control the climate change debate. Not because they’re right. Any sentient human being knows they’re dead wrong. Rather it’s because deniers have established the debate ground rules. Labeling scientific reports as hoaxes, they alternately argue that regulations and costs…
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Humankind has forever struggled to answer the existential question of whether we’re inherently good or evil, humane or selfish. It’s become an even tougher call in these disgruntled and divisive times. Like calling a batter’s check-swing, it depends on where…
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ARCHIVE UPDATE -- Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. It is the capacity to interrelate with compassion, concern, consideration. With respect to longevity, it is empathetic to appreciate the aging experience, both individually and…
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ARCHIVE UPDATE -- The first time this essay posted on Humble Sky, the Comment section was disabled. Probably a random glitch with the server or blog platform. Although … the content did condemn the practices of Google and Facebook and…
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ARCHIVE UPDATE -- “It would be easy to view the islands as distant lands with distant challenges,” Justin Worland wrote in ‘This Island is Sinking’ for TIME Magazine (6-24-19). The essay revealed the struggles to save island nations succumbing to…
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What if experience did inherently translate to wisdom? As our population grows older at an unprecedented pace, our collective wisdom would bathe us in knowledge and insights and solutions. This isn’t happening, obviously. Not now. Not anytime soon. Not later.…
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What in hell is wrong with people? There’s the obvious litany of human flaws and foibles, for sure: greed, selfishness, immorality, hate, racism, sexism, ageism, Xenophobia, et cetera, et cetera. The effects of which produce all sorts of social, national…
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Scientists call it “childhood amnesia.” As infants we somehow manage to store and retrieve vast quantities of functional information. Yet, around three-and-a-half years of age, “the memory chips of the human mind begin to experience failure,” according to the article…
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